DEPO – Reaffirming Buy Yesterday, Depomed reported better-than-expected earnings for the first quarter. Gralise revenue was $1.75 million, Glumetza revenue was $9.2 million, Janumet XR was $0.2 million. We are reaffirming our BUY recommendation for this company. We feel that increases in total sales for Glumetza, price increases, and an increase in the percentage revenue […]
DEPO – Quick Update on Depomed’s plan to file NDA for Serada
On Tuesday, Depomed announced that they intend to file an NDA for Serada. At one point, in after hours trading the stock peaked up almost 7%, at which point we cautioned investors, here, to consider selling into this strength. Since then, it seems that the stock price had settled back down pre-news levels until […]
DEPO – Quick Update – Paragraph IV – DM1992 Phase 2
Depomed released a statement that Actavis Group, a generic drug manufacturer filed a paragraph IV challenge against Gralise, Depomed’s once-daily gabapentin formulation. NEUTRAL on Paragraph IV We view this event as having no net impact. Patent challenges are not unexpected in this pharmaceutical environment, especially in the drug delivery space. The current generic drug legislation rewards early […]
DEPO, XNPT, PFE – Managed-care to stunt Lyrica, Horizant and Gralise with step-edits
The Neurology and Pain sectors have been very interesting for biotech investors focused over the past year. Xenoport (NASDAQ:XNPT), Depomed (NASDAQ:DEPO), GlaxoSmithKline (NYSE:GSK) and Pfizer (NYSE:PFE) have all had regulatory successes over the past several months. The problem is the regulatory successes haven’t necessarily resulted in financial success for companies and their shareholders. At a […]
DEPO – Trading BREEZE-3 Results
Overview In the next several weeks Depomed (DEPO) is expected to announce top-line results from it’s large Phase 3 clinical trial for Serada, an investigational non-hormonal treatment for post-menopausal hot flashes. Our analysis suggests a 35-40% probability of positive outcome for all endpoints with an expected share price move from $1.00 to $3.00(1) from current […]
DEPO – Initiating Coverage on Depomed & Examining BREEZE-3
Initiating Coverage: Depomed is a commercial-stage specialty pharmaceutical company with three FDA approved products; ProQuin for infection, Glumetza for Adult Onset Diabetes Mellitus & Gralise for Post Herpetic Neuralgia. Within the next several weeks Depomed will launch Gralise in the USA with a detailing focus to high prescribing neurologists and pain specialists. Also, within the […]
